“If there was an international nice-guy prize, David Wineland probably could win that too. As it is, he’ll have to settle for the Nobel Prize in physics.” – Washington Post I was honored to participate in the Symposium celebrating David Wineland’s 42 years of service to NIST on August 10, 2018. It was great to […]
Congratulations to Brandon Jackson on successfully defending his dissertation and obtaining a PhD.
The MTU Aerospace Enterprise is proud to share the news that Capt. Jake LaSarge was recently accepted into the USAF Test Pilot School as a Flight Test Engineer. During his undergraduate study Capt. LaSarge was the student Program Manager of our Oculus nanosatellite – which is slated for launch on a Falcon Heavy in April, […]
On December 7 a team from NASA-Goddard Spaceflight Center conducted a thorough design review of Michigan Tech’s Stratus cloud imaging satellite. While we suffered a few nicks and dings from the event (as is common during CDR), we passed and can now move on to system integration in preparation for an upcoming launch. Thanks to all of the […]
OK, so maybe there is a little photographic trickery going on to make this look easy. The actual build took approximately 4 days, but still a group of undergraduate students assembling a satellite on campus shows us how fast space technology is changing. The cost to build and launch a satellite is now about the […]
After six years of development, hundreds of undergraduate student hours, and countless cans of Monster energy drink the Michigan Tech Oculus nanosatellite shipped out on June 15, 2017. This 70-kg satellite will be used as an optical calibration target by ground observers who will attempt to decode how it is oriented and whether or not […]
MTU is excited to accept new cubesat hardware from Clyde Space. The shipment includes single-board computer, electrical power system, ADAC module, and flatsat test breakout board for Auris and Stratus. Cubesat technology has come a long way since the roll-your-own days of Oculus and HuskySat.
Isp Lab researcher, Kurt Terhune, recently published his collaborative work in Nanotechnology entitled, Radiation-induced solidification of ionic liquid under extreme electric field.
Research in the Ion Space Propulsion lab was recently featured in print edition of The Economist titled: “It’s not rocket science.”
The Ion Space Propulsion lab is proud to announce that one of their members, E.J. Meyer, has received the Winnikow Fellowship for his work titled: “Electrospray from an Ionic Liquid Ferrofluid utilizing the Rosensweig Instability.” The Winnikow fellowship is awarded in remembrance of Dr. Svetlana Winnikow.
The Ion Space Propulsion lab is proud to announce that one of their members, Kurt J. Terhune, has received the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship for his work titled: “Mass Measurements of a Ionic Liquid Ferrofluid Electrospray.” Kurt is one of 65 students to receive this prestigious award.
The Ion Space Propulsion lab is proud to announce that one of their members, Mark Hopkins, has received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) for his work on condensable propellant Hall-effect thrusters.
Michigan Tech University was chosen as the winning school in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s University Nanosatellite flight competition review. The MTU vehicle is called Oculus-ASR. The spacecraft is 70 kg and about half the size of a refrigerator. The spacecraft’s mission will improve techniques that the Department of Defense currently uses to keep track of all objects in space.
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